Carey Mulligan

Carey Mulligan has previously dated actors Shia LaBeouf, Tom Sturridge, and Eddie Redmayne. On April 21, 2012, she married ‘Mumford & Sons’ lead singer Marcus Mumford. They have two children together, daughter Evelyn Grace (born September 15, 2015) and son Wilfred (born August 2017).

Since 2012, Mulligan has been an ambassador for the Alzheimer's Society. She assumed the same role for the charity ‘War Child’ in 2014.

Born on May 28, 1985 in Westminster, London, Carey Mulligan is the youngest child and only daughter of Nano (née Booth) and Stephen Mulligan. She has an older brother named Owain Patrick Mulligan.

Her father, a hotel manager with Irish ancestry, grew up in Liverpool, while her mother, a university lecturer, was raised in Llandeilo, Wales. The family relocated to Germany when Mulligan was three years old after her father landed a job as a manager at a hotel there.

At the age of eight, Mulligan returned to England along with her family. She had been studying at International School of Düsseldorf while she was in Germany and later attended Woldingham School in Surrey.

After she saw her brother perform in a school production of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II’s ‘The King and I’, she became interested in acting. She went to the teachers and begged them to let her join the production. They eventually allowed her to be part of the chorus.

She soon became involved in the school’s theatre program and later became its head. They staged musicals, regular plays, and held workshops for young students.

In 2004, Carey Mulligan appeared in the play ‘Forty Winks’ at the Royal Court Theatre in London. This was her first major production. A year later, her debut movie ‘Pride & Prejudice’ was released. Based on Jane Austen’s classic novel, the film also starred Keira Knightley, Rosamund Pike, Matthew Macfadyen, and Donald Sutherland.

‘Pride & Prejudice’ premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2005, and went on become a critical and commercial success. Mulligan earned critical praise for her short and yet significant portrayal of the fourth Bennet sister.

She made her small screen debut as Ade Clare in BBC’s fifteen-part miniseries ‘Bleak House’. From 2005 to 2006, she portrayed a character named Angelique in a production of the musical ‘The Hypochondriac’ at Almeida Theatre. She played one of the main roles in the British drama series ‘The Amazing Mrs Pritchard’.

In 2007, she played the recurring character Sister Bridgid in BBC’s police procedural crime drama ‘Waking the Dead’ and appeared as Isabella Thorpe in the 2007 television adaptation of Austen’s ‘Northanger Abbey’. That year, she got the chance to make a guest appearance in an episode of the third series of ‘Doctor Who’.

She worked with director Anand Tucker in his film ‘And When Did You Last See Your Father?’ and portrayed Nina Zarechnaya in a production of Anton Chekov’s ‘The Seagull’ in 2007.

Carey Mulligan appeared in the 2009 film ‘An Education.’ Based on the memoir by British journalist Lynn Barber, the movie tells the story of a young schoolgirl named Jenny (Mulligan), who is seduced by a charming con man (Peter Sarsgaard).

The film was a critical and commercial hit. Made on a $7.5 million budget, it earned $26.1 million at the box office. It also garnered three Oscar nominations, including the one for Best Actress for Mulligan. She won the BAFTA for Best Actress in a Leading Role in 2009 for her performance. The film also earned her a Golden Globe nomination.